The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 50

‘Well, if she is as beautiful as that, I will have her for my Queen,’ said the King, and he commanded the youth to go home and fetch her without a moment’s delay, and to lose no time in coming back.

Who acts: woman, I, King · What happens: be, have, say, command, go, fetch · To what, where: woman, youth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, I, King), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	‘	'	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	14 have	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 beautiful	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 beautiful	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 beautiful	cop
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 beautiful	advmod
8	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Well	advcl
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 that	case
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 beautiful	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 have	aux
14	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 Queen	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 Queen	nmod:poss
18	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 have	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 King	det
23	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 said	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 commanded	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 commanded	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 commanded	nsubj
27	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 said	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 youth	det
29	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 commanded	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 go	mark
31	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 commanded	xcomp
32	home	home	ADV	_	31 go	advmod
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fetch	cc
34	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	31 go	conj
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fetch	obj
36	without	without	ADP	_	40 delay	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 moment	det
38	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 delay	nmod:poss
39	’s	's	PART	_	38 moment	case
40	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fetch	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 lose	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 lose	cc
43	to	to	PART	_	44 lose	mark
44	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	21 said	parataxis
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 time	det
46	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 lose	obj
47	in	in	SCONJ	_	48 coming	mark
48	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 lose	advcl
49	back	back	ADV	_	48 coming	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	present	woman			as that; beautiful property	tree rules
2	have	future	I	woman		for my Queen	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	the King				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	command	past	King	the youth			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	King not said here			home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fetch	infinitive	King not said here	woman		without a moment's delay	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	lose	to-infinitive			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	come back	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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